The holidays are coming, and I’m hoping you will give the gift of reading to both young adults and adults in your family. If you are looking for nonfiction, I hope you’ll look at giving Saving Our Sons (2017) and The Minds of Girls (2018) and any of the other Gurian Institute titles that fit your family’s and school’s needs. If you or someone you know is a fiction reader, …
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December 6, 2018
If you know someone who loves young adult novels, I hope you will recommend to them that they read the newest young adult novel by Printz Honor Winner, Terry Trueman. This action-packed and enlightening book just received a very positive review from School Library Journal. It’s a really good read. The relationship between the boy—the protagonist in the novel—and both his father and mentor are quite touching. If you are …
November 17, 2018
As you plan for Professional Development in 2019, we at GI hope you will utilize brain-based training during the new year. Please contact gail@gurianinstitute.com to start this conversation. Michael Gurian can come to your community to provide professional development; our certified and master trainers can come; and/or your team can learn Online. We have Pilots and one-year programs that also support systemic transformation in schools and communities. In our schools …
October 12, 2018
I mentioned a few weeks ago how proud I was of the publication of The Blind Woman and Other Stories. Many of you have written to me that you like the stories and I’m very appreciative. I also just learned that the publisher, Latah Books, will be submitting the stories for three different award competitions. Please permit me one more plug of the book! I promise you that it is …
October 8, 2018
A school leader wrote recently: “Michael, we know boys and girls learn differently, and by teaching to the minds of boys and girls, we have closed achievement gaps and improved student safety and behavior. This theory and the strategies work so well, we became a Gurian Model School–this has helped us to nurture the widest diversity of students. “But there is an idea circulating in our community, …
October 1, 2018
This week we are proud to feature guest blogs by two of our Certified Trainers, Eva Dwight and Abigail Wald. To learn more about Eva and Abigail, please visit our Trainer page on www.gurianinstitute.com. We are so proud of our trainers for these publications in national venues. In her blog, Eva discusses the emotional lives of girls directly, providing science and story for the beauty and the challenges inherent in …
September 4, 2018
This month, the Gurian Institute is launching its new podcast in collaboration with our friend and colleague, Tim Wright. Tim and I have been providing podcasts through patreon.com and we will continue to provide members only podcasts, video clips, blogs, and tools through that service. To join the Gurian Community on Patreon, please go to https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7827875; from there, you’ll see the membership site and we would love to have …
September 24, 2018
What’s a gender expert doing writing a book of short stories?! It’s a reasonable question, since people often think of nonfiction and fiction as separate endeavors. And they are. But if you’re curious to read one answer and one blending of two genres, The Blind Woman and Other Stories will, I hope, touch your heart. I initially wrote these stories between 1987 and 2000; I’ve revised them on airplanes and …
September 10, 2018
“Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are 15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Everywhere we look, the two sexes …
August 27, 2018
Just last week, someone posted on Twitter the illusion that female and male brains are the same. Why talk about girls and boys, these folks ask, their brains are the same anyway. Nothing could be farther from the truth. While there is huge overlap between female and male brains, and while there are more than 3.5 billion + ways to be “girl/female” and 3.5 billion + ways to be “boy/male” …
August 20, 2018
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